Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...induce the Federal Reserve to interfere with U. S. prosperity by hampering Wall Street but should sell to the U. S. some of its island possessions off the Atlantic Coast, which possessions are naval bases that threaten U. S. security. Representative Garner, ranking Democrat on the Ways & Means Committee, thought that anti-speculative legislation was a "far-reaching" matter that ought to be "carefully considered...
Upshot. It was doubtful whether anything would result from all the congressional speeches and resolutions, if only because the Federal Reserve Board itself was believed to be aghast at the thought of its delicate and vital functions being subject to congressional disturbance at such a critical moment...
Some of the laborers pointed to gold-lettered window announcements which proclaimed that City Trust Co. was a depository of the U. S. government, of the state and city of New York. Some of the laborers thought that therefore the U. S., the state, and the city were guaranteeing deposits. Others, less naïve, were selling their bankbooks at 50 cents on the dollar...
...general shaking of hands and a few posings with Mr. Edison standing between his cronies, Motor-Man Henry Ford and Tire-Man Harvey Samuel Firestone, his hands affectionately around their shoulders. Mr. Hoover, sauntering across the street to telephone, saw a group of little girls looking sad because, they thought, they were not permitted to dance at Mr. Edison's party. Mr. Hoover opened Mr. Edison's gate and sent the children in. On Mrs. Edison's ample table was a big green-&-yellow pound cake. This the old gentleman sliced with skill and raillery...
...fascinated students Sieburth had paraphrased Schopenhauer as "the World in Terms of Woman and Thought''; then proceeded to demonstrate the philosophy in person. His women he took indiscriminately from exclusive faculty circles or from the streets and brothels - one died of despair, another married out of spite, and yet another, jealous, ruined his career. As for thought, Sieburth dissipated it in drunken orgies, then gave it up as futile; killed himself...